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Technology Scheduler II
Technology Applications – Student Support
IT Supervisor, Student Applications
September 12, 2014
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ASASP_III

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POSITION SUMMARY:


  Under the direction of the Technology Applications - Student Application’s Supervisor, the incumbent of this position directs and coordinates activities, with minimal supervision, for personnel engaged in the production control, and scheduling activities for the schools and county organizations. Responsible for designing and executing strategies that are tied to specific action plans. Additionally, communication with other departments is critical. The work involves moderate to full-range tasks as assigned by the supervisor in tasks related to schools schedules, reporting functions, and system testing and enrollments.   

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

 

Provide support to the Division of Academics in maintaining the District Course Catalog in the student information system;

Assist with the development and training of APEX reports that support the Division of Academics;

Assist with the development and training of Google Forms and Documents that support Division of Academics maintain of the district course catalog and the individual school course masters;

Provide on-going training to all campus master schedulers to include, but not limited to: understanding and using the course catalogs, creating and maintaining the master schedule, changing students schedules,  assigning counselors, assigning homerooms, maintaining the rooms file, scheduling new students, printing schedules, and generating scheduling reports in the Student Information System;

Coordinate all scheduling timelines and activities with school district;

Develop and maintain master scheduling timeline for the schools;

Develop and maintain end of year scheduling conversion timelines;

Monitor the development of all campus master schedules;

Provide on-going training to school based staff on developing a master schedule based on staffing, student needs, and school objectives including teaming;

Meet with county coordinators to monitor application, acceptance, and scheduling processes as they relate to the campus master schedule;

Ability to demonstrate the following core values: integrity, high expectations, commitment, respect, dedication to teamwork and passion for a student centered environment;

Daily attendance and punctuality at work are essential functions of the job;

Updates technical skills and knowledge through continuous self-study, self-discovery, tutorials, and classes;

Troubleshoots problems and issues encountered by system users, suggest resolutions, and resolve those problems and issues;

Assists clients in resolving problems in the use of software;

Utilize APEX reports to monitor the master schedules in all middle, K8 and high schools for the current school year and for the next school year once schools begin the master schedule building process;

Identify new school reports and district reports that will benefit end users, develop the specifications and work with the developers to test the query using Toad and then test that the output is correct;

Write guides for functionality related to scheduling, revise them as the product changes, and distribute them to the user;

Test new scheduling functionality, create documentation on how to use it and write test cases to be used in later releases.  Refine current test cases to be used in future testing of new software releases;

Utilize the ERO system to enter training sessions after finding and reserving computer lab space for the training sessions;

Work with the T3 team on issues related to scheduling and keep them abreast of changes in the software via meetings, updating the elementary scheduling guide and including them on all emails to master schedulers;

Work with the testing office to provide to our master schedulers accessibility to and training on Performance Matters;

Plan and conduct training sessions for staff on entering course requests, using the Walk-In Scheduler, how students use the Family Portal to enter course requests, and how counselors approve course requests entered in the Family Portal;

Configure the student information system including setting up the school attendance parameters so high schools that elect to can use the Family Portal for students to enter course requests;

Configure all high schools so that all students can view their course requests in the Family Portal;

Configure the student information system so schools can build their schedule for next year by performing the following tasks:

Copy this year’s course master to next year; 

Send out a survey on how each school (middle, K8 and High) wishes to configure their school for the next year and maintain a Google Doc indicating their responses.   Share this Google Doc with the instructional directors so they can submit an SRA if a school wishes to change their scheduling paradigm;

Copy each school’s current master schedule to next year with or without sections and with or without primary educators attached.  4. Update the school scheduling parameters for next year; and

Request a script to update the term dates.

Manage the creation of multiple master schedule versions at the request of each high school to use in testing a master schedule.  Requests scripts when necessary if a version fails or if v00 is run accidentally;

Manage the conversion of each high school back to v00 in August;

Assist the T3 team is supporting the scheduling needs of the elementary schools;

Work with the Division Of Academics and Student Services to deploy and maintain the Graduation Standard functionality in the student information system;

Monitor the scheduling roles in the student information system and identify which pages needed to be added, modified or removed so the users have access to working functionality in order to complete their tasks;

Work with the vendor to develop solutions to missing functionality or functionality that is not working as designed.  Test new functionality and create guides for our users;

Respond to SRA’s that are related to scheduling; and

Performs all related work as required.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS:The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

 

Thorough knowledge of the scheduling principals in a K12 public schools environment;

Maintain emotional control under stress;

Work with frequent interruptions;

Must be able to use personal computer, back office support software, Microsoft office software including Google forms and documents; and

A proven record of success as a scheduler and curriculum related tasks.

 

 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:


 

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field required; minimum 5 (five) years of experience within a K12 Public School System; minimum of 3 (three) years of experience building and maintaining a master schedule preferably in a high school. Thorough knowledge of SchoolMAX especially functionality related to scheduling.

 

 



CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:


None Required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:


No direct supervisory responsibilities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:


The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, talk, hear, walk, sit, and use fingers, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as to read handwritten or typed material, the ability to adjust focus, and depth perception. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.


WORKING ENVIRONMENT:


The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:


None.

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